A group of Tajik nationals claim they are being forced to "work as slaves" on a remote cattle farm in Russia's Far Eastern Magadan region for an employer who has taken away their passports to prevent ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Volkswagen's Brazil unit has been ordered to pay 165 million reais ($30.44 million) in damages for subjecting workers on a farm to slavery-like conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Forty-one years after he first denounced the use of slave labor in a Brazilian farm owned by German company Volkswagen, a Catholic priest is finally seeing the case being taken to ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian labor prosecutors charged Volkswagen's local unit with subjecting farm workers to conditions akin to slavery decades ago and are seeking 165 million reais ($27.5 ...

Slavery is an abhorrent concept, but for most of human history, it was accepted as normal. The widespread collapse of “the ...

The U.S. has blocked sea salt imports from South Korea's largest salt farm, over allegations that the farm repeatedly made use of slave labor. According to an April 7 report from the Associated Press, ...

A labor rights group sued Starbucks on Thursday, alleging that it sourced coffee from a major cooperative in Brazil whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions.

SEOUL. South Korea — The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 40 million people around the world were living as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, according to the first joint effort by ...

Behind those harmless-looking solar panels harnessing the sun’s power lies a disturbing secret: Roughly 80% of solar components are manufactured in China using slave labor. Not only have the buyers of ...